The CIA remained as the top trending cybercrime target of the week as WikiLeaks released a third set of documents related to the agency. The new release includes 676 source code files for the CIA’s secret anti-forensic Marble Framework, which WikiLeaks said “is used to hamper forensic investigators and anti-virus companies from attributing viruses, trojans… Read More

We’ve seen a lot of discussion about the collective threat of the Internet-of-Things, ever since malicious actors proved in October 2016 that they could disrupt whole chunks of the Internet by stringing to together thousands of compromised smart devices and pointing them all at a single target. The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against DNS provider Dyn led to… Read More

A series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against financial institutions led to customers of Lloyds Banking Group experiencing intermittent outages over a 48-hour period and was the top trending cybercrime event over the past week. The Guardian reported that the attacks hit Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland from January 11 to January 13. IBTimes… Read More

The new year is underway, and one of the biggest causes of concern carrying over into 2017 is the threat posed by the growing number of compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. As I stated in my previous cyber forecast blog on extortion, I prefer to base my “predictions” around actual intelligence and verifiable data. IoT-related security… Read More

The European Commission is the top trending cybercrime target over the past two weeks after experiencing a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) that brought down Internet access for several hours over two separate periods, making it difficult for employees to work, a staff member told Politico. However, the most impactful event from the period is the… Read More

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were once again among the most discussed cybercrime events of the week as discussion around the Marai botnet continued and a handful of Russian banks were targeted with attacks powered by compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The week also saw one of the largest data breaches ever as the Adult Friend Network… Read More

Last week’s massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, which made popular websites and services inaccessible to users across the East Coast and elsewhere, has since led to widespread concern about insecure Internet-connected devices and calls for government agencies to get involved in order to ensure those devices are secured against future attacks. In fact, the attack against… Read More

There has been growing concern around distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this week as the source code for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) driven botnet “Mirai” has been publicly released by a user on Hackforums. The Mirai botnet has been tied to the recent massive DDoS attack against Brian Krebs website and is made up of a growing… Read More

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